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not of the first gathering. Dr. Craig goes on to say that " Prof. 

 Babington in a letter remarks, 'Hooker, in 1821, seems to have 

 had specimens gathered by Don ("Scot. Fl.," pt. i. p. 32)." I do 

 not agree with Prof. Babington in this ; looking at Don's descrip- 

 tions 1 of this, condensata, and denudata, and Smith's remarks on 

 them, they seem to me to come under hypnoides and grxnlandLa ? 

 and Hooker's ccespitosa was evidently an aggregate species. Dr. 

 Craig says, " In the herbarium of Dr. Gordon of Birnie, there is a 

 specimen labelled 'Ben Avon, Aug. 1831. W. A. Stables,' with 

 label in his handwriting." 



In the first edition of the "Species Plantarum," i, 404, 1753, 

 Linnaeus describes two Saxifrages 



"No. 24. S. groenlandica. Habitat Grcenlandia, forte etiam in 

 Pyrenasis and Helveticis Alpibus. 



"No. 27. S.cKspitosa. Habitat in Alpibus Lapponicis, Helveticis, 

 Tridentinis, Monspelii." 



The Greenland, Iceland, and Scottish specimens (Dr. Barry and 

 Mr. Evans) accord very well with the latter (No. 27), the Ben 

 Lawers and Tul Dhu, Wales, may go to the former (No. 24). 



Hooker and Arnott (ed. 8, 1860) evidently have No. 27 in 

 view, as has also Bentham (ed. i, 1858). And although so well 

 known to be what was called a "lumper," Bentham certainly refers 

 to the Arctic ccespitosa (No. 27), and not to the mixture of ccc.spitosa,. 

 decipiens, and grc&nlandica. 



It is difficult no doubt for anyone who has not seen the true 

 ccespitosa to see why the Irish, Welsh, and Ben Lawers specimens 

 may not be so named. Of course if you make an aggregate species 

 including all these the matter is easily settled, in fact authors differ 

 ad lib. as to this section of the genus. 



In the second edition of the " Cybele Hibernica " (1898), 131, 

 the authors remark, under S. hypnoides, L., var. grxnlandica (Eugl.), 

 " To this, rather than to S. azspitosa, L., should probably be referred 

 the plants gathered by Mackay and Mr. Linton on Brandon." In 

 this I quite agree with them. No doubt Prof. Babington put the 

 Welsh and other specimens under his caspitosa, as he speaks of 

 having gathered " -5". ccespitosa in Clogivyn-y-Garnedd" in " Journ. of 

 Life" (1897), p. 10. And of course others may say "you are 

 simply dealing with a super-species here, made up of many sub- 

 species ; if so, which name should it bear, 'grcenla ndica' or 

 ' c&spitosa ' ? " A. BENNETT. 



Helleborine atroviridis, W. R. Linton, in W. Sutherland. 

 Rev. E. F. Linton has called my attention to a specimen sent to 

 him as Epipadis latifolia from Ardskinid Point, Tongue Bay, July 

 1900, which I had noted as having green flowers, scarcely tinged 

 with pink. He remarks that " it looks like ovalis, but that with. 

 1 "Trans. Linn. Soc.," V. xiii. 444-448. 



